BOOMSLANG / ZHARP by LV FT OKMALUMKOOLKAT

LV made this tough Kwaito house inspired 12� after hooking up with Smiso Zwane aka Ok-malumkoolkat from the Cape Town group Dirty Paraffin in South Africa at the end of last year.LV and Smiso played and recorded together and Smiso�s raps were taken back to LV�s musical lab in South London, dissected and reassembled, and these two tracks were the result. �Boomslang� is possibly one of the most infectious tracks Hyperdub has ever released. Built around Smiso�s slurred, gravelly vocals raps, its tough galloping drums, sliding car-toonish melody, techy stabs and bubbling analogue riffs work together to give the whole thing a weightless, spacey energy. �Zharp� is a stranger but still catchy track. Smiso�s vocals are chopped up, pitched up and down, repeated and stretched into weird melodies, with little synth interludes breaking them up, and sparse kicks and claps providing a persistent rhythm. Check out the video for �Boomslang� here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtg4nu5C-SI